Google Product Categories

[Gareth Wanklin]

We have a large range of products that can be easily grouped in to product types and what i am looking to do is pass that data into Google analytics so it can show the revenue etc gained from those product categories.

Setting the Google Product Category field in the Properties tab of the product appears to make no difference.

We dont use google shopping does anyone know how i would go about getting this to work in sellerdeck?

I have attached a screenshot of what i am hoping to achieve.

[abbi_newbie]

We do use Google Shopping and have set up all the categories, but ours don't show up in analytics...

However, I did just find this article which may be useful.

I'll be honest it isn't top of my priority list so I haven't looked into it fully, but it looks as though it is something that needs setting up in th analytics tracking code within sellerdeck?

https://developers.google.com/analyt...cker_._addItem

Just make sure you have the categories set up according to the google taxonomy spreadsheet for the UK - I have attached it here.

Hope that helps - let me know how you get on as I will have a go myself soon!

[Gareth Wanklin]

Abbi Thanks for that i had spotted that article but my JS knowlegde is very limited to say the least i am sure i have to change the google analytics variable setup code which currently stands as

<actinic:block if="%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsGoogleAnalyticsEnabled%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20true%29%20AND%20%28%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%20%3d%3d%20%22Receipt%22%29" >
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var act_order, act_item, act_ordernumber, act_productname, act_price, rConverDot, rRemoveEncoded;
act_item = "";
act_ordernumber = "<actinic:variable name="TheOrderNumber" />";
rConverDot = new RegExp(".", "g");
rRemoveEncoded = new RegExp("&#\\d*;", "g");
//-->
</script>
</actinic:block>

However trying to work it out is causing me some issues. I will continue to endeavour.

I think the thing about this method is that because it is not tied to Google Shopping you can create your own product categories.